Chantelle Marshall

“How could I just turn my back on him like this? But how could I stay? It isn’t the money. It isn’t. I’d gladly give him every cent I have. Because the truth is, I really can put up with the fact that he thought I was fat. And I can put up with the fact that he apparently complained about my fatness to his family. And I can put up with the gambling, and even with the fact that he pretended like he couldn’t come so I would give him a blow job. But defrauding poor people? Because that is basically what someone who takes unemployment while having a paying job is doing. That I cannot tolerate.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble

“This was the age of Jane Eyre, whom we all remember refused to accept Mr. Rochester’s generous offer to make over her wardrobe, preferring merino wool to the silk organzas he ordered for her. If only she’d had Melania Trump to set her straight on this wrongheaded attitude toward fashion.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble

“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil

“HOBBY: Guitar. Owns approximately three thousand.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock 'n' Roll Survivor